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Archive => 20.1 Legacy Series => Topic started by: Wired Life on May 10, 2020, 12:01:42 pm

Title: which mini pcie wifi adapter?
Post by: Wired Life on May 10, 2020, 12:01:42 pm

Hello,
i'm searching for a half size mini pcie wifi adapter which works with OPNsense.
Currently i'm having a card which does not work.

Quote

ath0: <Atheros 9285> mem 0xfea00000-0xfea0ffff irq 28 at device 0.0 on pci2
[ath] AR9285 Main LNA config: LNA1
[ath] AR9285 Alt LNA config: LNA2
[ath] LNA diversity disabled, Diversity disabled
ath0: [HT] enabling HT modes
ath0: [HT] 1 stream STBC receive enabled
ath0: [HT] 1 RX streams; 1 TX streams
ath0: AR9285 mac 192.2 RF5133 phy 14.0
ath0: 2GHz radio: 0x0000; 5GHz radio: 0x00c0
wlan0: changing name to 'ath0_wlan1'
ath0_wlan1: ieee80211_new_state_locked: pending RUN -> SCAN transition lost
ath0_wlan1: promiscuous mode enabled
ath0: device timeout

Can you recommend a half size mini pcie card or a chipset?
Alternative i can use a usb device.

Thanks!

Title: Re: which mini pcie wifi adapter?
Post by: Darwin100 on May 10, 2020, 12:26:46 pm

Dear Wired Life,

I have been looking also and stumbled across this, https://teklager.se/en/products/router-components/wle900vx-wireless-wifi-kit .

It has the card, the cables and the antennas.

I don't know if it works but after I finish learning about everything else it is my intention to order a kit to see how it works.

Regards

Title: Re: which mini pcie wifi adapter?
Post by: Wired Life on May 10, 2020, 12:54:50 pm

Quote from: Darwin100 on May 10, 2020, 12:26:46 pm

Dear Wired Life,

I have been looking also and stumbled across this, https://teklager.se/en/products/router-components/wle900vx-wireless-wifi-kit .

It has the card, the cables and the antennas.

I don't know if it works but after I finish learning about everything else it is my intention to order a kit to see how it works.

Regards

I think this wont work because it has a chipset which supports 802.11ac, these are not supported by freebsd.
For me its useless because i can only fit a half size card, and this is a full size.
For you i can say a WLE200NX works perfectly in a APU.
I have WLE200NX in my APU2C4 and it works, but this card wont fit in my new build OPNsense hardware.

Title: Re: which mini pcie wifi adapter?
Post by: aponomarenko on July 04, 2020, 11:49:59 am

Yep, wle900vx is QCA9880 that is not supported by FreeBSD yet (up to 12.1 at least).

Title: Re: which mini pcie wifi adapter?
Post by: aponomarenko on July 04, 2020, 12:24:09 pm

Quote from: Wired Life on May 10, 2020, 12:01:42 pm

i'm searching for a half size mini pcie wifi adapter which works with OPNsense.

See the following list of tested wireless cards from BSD users: https://bsd-hardware.info/?view=search&typeid=net%2Fwireless&busid=pci#list

Most popular are: Centrino Advanced-N 6205, Wireless 7260, Centrino Ultimate-N 6300, AR9285 (see https://bsd-hardware.info/?view=net_wireless_model&period=0)

Title: Re: which mini pcie wifi adapter?
Post by: bartjsmit on July 04, 2020, 04:15:29 pm

Keep in mind that WiFi support may be limited to client use and exclude use as an AP.

Bart...